BuildDirect Co-Founder Blog With Rob Banks

If you follow my blog, you obviously know  I do a lot of travel to Asia. Living in Vancouver is a brilliant location to do business with Asia as we are the gateway to the Pacific Rim. The best airline in the world, in my opinion, is Cathay Pacific Airways , and they actually became a global player due in part to the success of the Hong Kong to Vancouver route. That has now extended to New York, Vancouver, Hong Kong.  So the flight is more popular than ever. To get to Hong Kong from … [Read more...]

As I wrote in my last blog post, I was in Wuxi, China last year, a city a few hours drive outside of Shanghai and the attraction I went to see was the ‘the Big Buddha’. The Grand Buddha at Ling Shan is approx 300 ft tall (88m) and I believe is top 10 largest Buddha statues in the world. Take a look! The area around the Grand Buddha was massive and absolutely beautiful. It was kind of a Disneyland for promotion of the religion. The location in the mountains gave you … [Read more...]

Traveling is China for myself rarely means I get to experience tourist type attractions. But when I was in Wuxi China last year, one day a factory owner took me out to see some of the local tourist attractions. The video is the key attraction of this blog as the area is really a beautiful part of the world. I start the video over looking Lake Tai and then most of the video is the area surrounding the Grand Buddha. Wuxi is nicknamed ‘the Pearl of Lake Tai’ as it sits on … [Read more...]

I love this series as it really does reflect my life of element to when I travel, especially in China. I do not get to experience what a tourist would.  I rarely see beautiful things, museums, the Great Wall (I've been to China dozens of times, and I still haven’t seen it!).  But I do get to have experiences that are amazing and pretty unique. Now having been to China as many times as I have and reading about my experiences on this blog you might think…. “Wow, all Rob does in China … [Read more...]